Okay, I spoke to Nate French a bit about the format and also card distribution.

The base game comes with 4 "preconstructed decks" and three quests. The quests have a Shadow pack that goes with them and so when you pick your quest cards, you use the pack for each of the 3 cards to build the shadow deck.

The preconstructed decks have singles, so 3 base sets will be required for a full playset, but the packs will be all 3 ofs, like the rest of the LCGs now.

Also, the shadow cards have symbols that are associated with the quests like a Spider or Orc and you will be able to mix in later Spider cards to the shadow deck when facing a spider quest.

For competitive play, Nate said they were leaning towards what I assumed. There would be a new quest you have never seen before at the event. Build what you hope is the best deck, show up and get a quest assigned and go at it. The quests would also be prizes to be reprinted later, but special for that event. I like that a lot. It is a elegant way to add story to the game.

That's it for now. I haven't re-demoed so it's all I've got.

Chevee

I want to go to there. This will be great.

So, I never made it back to take a re-run at the game, but I did snap a few overheads on my camera in passing. Quality is horrible and glare is bad, but this may be of use to somebody. If these bring up any more questions, I'll do my best to answer.

Just back from GenCon..preview of this was strange at first, but the co-op idea was very cool. There were a few hang ups that even the demo people

had struggled with. I liked the concept and prolly would try to see where this goes.